Froome and Wiggins TUEs

[Crackle]

Lukas Knofler has done a REALLY good thread on Twitter about this - evidence backed research about the UCI's position on this in relation to Salbutamol offences. It's not an easy read and is quite complex, but worth sticking with it.

He has written 36 tweets on it, you need to scroll down to the first one.

https://twitter.com/lukascph?lang=en

Do you mean all the tweets or just one with a report and if so which one, there's loads?

 

[HF2300]

46 pages about bradley wiggins NOT failing a drug test

I wonder how many more pages it will reach now that froome HAS failed a drug test............

ready steady go...................

18 so far today, apparently

 

[Doseone]

Do you mean all the tweets or just one with a report and if so which one, there's loads?

It's a series of 36 tweets, some with attachments, it is long. Scroll down his timeline until you see the one below, the following tweets are all numbered.

 

[smutchin]

It's a series of 36 tweets

Ugh! I hate people who do that. They’re worse than people who abuse TUEs. Why can’t he just st write it in a blog and tweet a link to the blog?

 

[jowwy]

18 so far today, apparently

And some still in denial that he failed a drug test........even froome thinks he didn't fail it.

He also thinks it won't taint his legacy

 

[HF2300]

And some still in denial that he failed a drug test........even froome thinks he didn't fail it.

He also thinks it won't taint his legacy

And all of it tedious.

 

[400bhp]

And some still in denial that he failed a drug test........even froome thinks he didn't fail it.

He also thinks it won't taint his legacy

You may wish to read up about it.

He actually hasn't failed a drugs test.

But then again maybe you don't.

 

[jowwy]

You may wish to read up about it.

He actually hasn't failed a drugs test.

But then again maybe you don't.

So what has he failed with both his A and B samples then if not a drugs test? Is salbutumol not a drug?

 

[400bhp]

So what has he failed with both his A and B samples then if not a drugs test? Is salbutumol not a drug?

It's an Adverse Analytical Findng, which broadly interprets as a test has been performed where a UCI limit has been breached. But this in itself isn't a failure.

It's actually worth a read of the above Twitter post as it does follow the UCI's procedural nuances, albeit you have to assume he has read the right parts of UCI's codes correctly.

 

[jowwy]

He's had an Adverse Analytic Finding. That has a specific meaning. You can argue forever about whether that equates to "failed a drugs test", a more colloquial and less specific term. But please don't. It's boring and achieves nothing.

Found during a drug test???? Or was his urine being checked for how much robinsons squash he drunk??

 

[Bollo]

Interesting take on it all by Phillipa York here...

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/dec/14/chris-froome-team-sky-drug-test

 

[ColinJ]

The Cycling Weekly Christmas double issue went to press before the story broke, so you can forgive them for this ...

 

[sleaver]

From what we know, is there any conclusive proof that he did overdose or is it purely down to his metabolism?

If it’s the latter, then if your a professional athlete who has asthma, your in a difficult position aren’t you. If you have asthma, you need drugs to control it but even if you take the legal amount, you know you could fail a test and you can’t take a lower dosage as breathing is quite a useful thing to do.

 

[Adam4868]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cycling/...gins-wife-cath-calls-chris-froome-slithering/
Cath Wiggins take on it !

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cycling/...gins-wife-cath-calls-chris-froome-slithering/
Cath Wiggins take on it !

Her husband is a lying jiffy bag smuggling drug cheat tho.